Wayne Horvitz: Zony Mash + Electric Circus
October 27, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Doors at 7:30pm
8pm – Zony Mash
Wayne Horvitz – Hammond B3
Tim Young – guitar
Keith Love – electric bass
Andy Roth – drums
9pm – Electric Circus
Tim Young – guitar
Keith Love – electric bass
Andy Roth – drums
Alex Noice – guitar
Miller Wren – upright bass
Motoko Honda – keys
Mikaela Elson – vocals
Sarah Schoenbeck – bassoon
Megan Shung – violin
Leah Bowden – percussions
Nicole McCabe – alto sax
Phillip Whack – bari sax
Tatiana Tate – trumpet
Travis Flournoy – live video
Originally the Tuesday night house band at the OK Hotel, Zony Mash spent much of the ’90s and early aughts recording and touring the world. Created with the instrumentation of The Meters, Zony Mash starts where they left off.
Electric Circus is a large, mostly electric ensemble that remixes classic soul, funk, and rock for the 21st century. Composer Wayne Horvitz uses “conduction” – in the tradition of Lawrence “Butch” Morris – utilizing brief riffs, motifs, and grooves culled from classic recordings by James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Willie Dixon, Los Lobos, Captain Beefheart, Electric Miles Davis, The Grateful Dead, The Pointer Sisters, Sun Ra, The Bangles, The Clash, The Allman Brothers, Parliament-Funkadelic, and many, many more.
“Wayne Horvitz’s music remains multifaceted and transportable, from the hinterlands of avant classical to down-home folksy charm, from small group getups to large-ensemble blowouts.”
– All About Jazz
Wayne Horvitz
Recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition, composer Wayne Horvitz performs extensively throughout Europe, Japan, and North America. In addition to creating work for his own ensembles, he has created new work for The Kitchen, BAM, Seattle Symphony, Berlin Jazz, NOCCO, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Centrum, and ACT, among others. He has received awards from the MAP Fund, McKnight Foundation, the NEA, Meet the Composer, and The Shifting Foundation, among others.
Narrative works include pieces centered around the life of Joe Hill, the story of the Everett Massacre, and the poems of Richard Hugo. His installation work has been presented at Ft. Worden, SAM, and the Arizona State Museum of Art. He is the recipient of the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.
Collaborators include Robin Holcomb, Bill Frisell, Reggie Watts, Butch Morris, Alex Guy, Ikue Mori, George Lewis, Steve Swallow, Yukio Suzuki, Billy Bang, Carla Bley, Eyvind Kang, John Zorn (Naked City, etc.), Bill Irwin, Gus Van Sant, Paul Taylor, Beth Fleenor, Rinde Eckert, Yohei Saito, Barbara Earl Thomas, David Moss, Carey Perloff, Paul Taylor, Dayna Hanson, and Gus Van Sant.
He has produced recordings for the World Saxophone Quartet, Human Feel, Fontella Bass, Marty Ehrlich, John Adams, Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb, and Eddie Palmieri.
https://www.waynehorvitz.com/
